[Comprehensive Book] A Rose for Catherine

The Bennet sisters moved to London and still lived in the Gardners' home.Jane originally planned to take her sisters to live in a hotel for a while, but the uncle was worried about the unmarried girls living outside and insisted on keeping them at home.

Mrs. Gardner gently persuaded the eldest niece. Jane has always been unwilling to make things difficult. She hesitated for a while and it was difficult to refuse Mrs. Gardner's kindness. She asked several younger sisters what they thought. It's always better to stay in a hotel.

But in this way, for Mary who had other plans, she had to find a way to deal with the Gardners.After all, if she suddenly disappeared in London, there is no doubt that her whereabouts cannot be concealed.

Catherine held her chin and thought about it, and discussed with Mary: "Maybe we can get some help at the salon soon."

Catherine wanted Mary to stay in London temporarily in the name of a noble lady's companion. The Bennet family was obviously not a class that could deal with nobles at will, and the lack of communication among them was just enough to cover up Mary's whereabouts.

"Uncles and aunts are all enlightened people, maybe we don't need to hide it from them?" Catherine bit her lip and thought, Mary's going to school must not be a short-term thing, maybe three or five years.Her whereabouts can be hidden for a while, but not for a while.With Mrs. Bennet's temper, it would be the worst possible situation for Mary if she went to school.

Mary gently smoothed the paper of her notes, "I don't want to trouble uncles and them. After all, Uncle Gardner is not our father, so he has no responsibility to worry about so many things for us."

She meant not to tell anyone else.

"Kitty, no one but you knows where I've been, and I don't go to school under the name Mary Bennet. Once I'm out of here they don't care." Mary smiled softly." Some way will be found of it. But it's not the most important thing now, Kitty, and you'd better think for yourself."

Catherine was worried about her, but she didn't know how to persuade her.

Mary, who is in the middle of the five daughters, has always been the one ignored by everyone. Jane and Elizabeth have similar temperaments. Lydia and Catherine are two young girls who don't like serious books and don't like to talk to each other. Mary.Mary grew up in this kind of atmosphere. She also worked hard to read many difficult theories because Mr. Bennet liked the book-loving Elizabeth, and because Mrs. Bennet liked the lively Lydia, she tried her best to perform at the ball. As a result, no one paid attention.

She gradually gave up her expectations of her parents and pinned all her interests on reading.

That's a good thing, but it's not a good thing either.

But Mary was right, and Catherine soon lost her mind to worry about her.

On the second day after arriving in London, Catherine received an invitation letter from Princess Charlotte.It turned out that she was invited to live in her house for a while before the salon started, and by the way, discuss the process of the story Catherine created for her, and she planned to introduce the host of the salon, Miss Fitzroy, for Catherine in advance.

Catherine, of course, gladly went.

This time, Catherine plans to wear the same dress Lydia designed for Princess Charlotte.She didn't think that her little tricks could hide from the eyes of a princess who was regarded as the heir since she was a child. In this case, she might as well tell the truth.

But Miss Fitzroy was something she hadn't expected.In order to make this gift unique to Princess Charlotte, she must not be able to give another dress.A lady of nobility would want nothing that a daughter of a squire could have.

After thinking about it, Catherine decided to give the lady the manuscript of her new short story.

— After all, what will be held is a literary salon.

After Catherine was about to leave, Lydia and Jane also received Leonard's invitation to try on and modify Lydia's part of the design.

Elizabeth accompanied.

The first time Lydia was alone with the two big sisters, she always felt uncomfortable, and went to complain to Catherine in private: "I think I will quarrel with Lizzie in two days. I really don't like her, Don't think I can't see it, she used to think that I was an embarrassment to the family!"

"No matter what she thought before, but now her view of you has changed." Catherine comforted Lydia softly, "Lizzie is not a bad person, we can try to get along with her. The relationship between me and her in the past two years Wouldn't it get better?"

Lydia still hesitated, but considering Catherine, she reluctantly nodded: "Okay, I will try to get along with her."

Catherine trimmed her slightly curly hair hanging on her chest, "If you can't get along, there's no need to embarrass yourself. After all, we can't get along well with everyone, and Lizzie and I didn't like Miss Bingley before. It's not a mistake, Lydia, it's your own feelings that matter."

Before Catherine came to this world, she had already passed the age of adulthood. She really treated Lydia, who was 13 years old at the time, as a little sister. Feeling how unbearable she is, instead, she spent a lot of thought to subtly influence her concept gradually.Because of this energy, Catherine valued Lydia more than the other sisters.

If possible, she hoped that Lydia could continue to be arrogant and innocent forever.

This is Catherine's wish as a sister.

But it's good that Lydia is more sensible now.

Less than two days after the five Bennet sisters arrived in London, Catherine was picked up by Princess Charlotte, and the three of Jane were immediately invited by Leonard. Only Mary was still at Mr. Gardner's house.

Mrs. Gardner and Mary are not as familiar as the other nieces who often come and go, and she can’t talk about the philosophy that Mary likes, so Mary has some free time alone.

Mary made a list of all the materials needed for the disguise.Taking advantage of this opportunity, she can buy all these things in the London store.

On the other side, Catherine has been taken to a magnificent mansion by carriage.

This mansion was not where Princess Charlotte lived, and Catherine quickly found out the real situation with the leading maid quietly.

This is the residence of the Duke of Fitzroy. The Duke has another title. For convenience, Catherine only remembered their family names.

Passing through the corridor full of paintings, the maid led her to a door and knocked on the door three times.

Immediately, a young woman dressed differently from the others came out, smiled slightly at Catherine, and curtseyed with her skirt: "I am Miss Sophia's personal maid, Miss Catherine, please come with me. Two... Miss has been waiting for you for half the morning, and they are all looking forward to meeting you."

The maid led her into the living room, bowed her knees to the two ladies sitting on the sofa, and left first.

There were only three young girls left in the spacious living room.

After the three met each other, Charlotte stood up, took Catherine's hand and sat down beside her, introducing them with a smile.

"Kitty, this is the Sophia I mentioned to you in my letter. Sophia is a great reader of your work, but she never guessed that you were such a young girl."

Sophia Fitzroy is a girl about seventeen or eighteen years old, about the same age as Charlotte, and the two have been friends since childhood. She has an oval face, thick hair, and sapphire pendants of the same color as her eyes. On the snow-white chest, her skin is fair.

Sophia didn't have the pretensions of an aristocratic lady, and smiled and picked up Charlotte's words: "I really didn't expect 'Miss Upton' to be younger than me, but Charlotte didn't expect it either. Kitty, with your I am much better at my age than I am at writing such works. I can't even learn Latin well."

Catherine raised her lips lightly: "I don't learn well either."

"Hey, so I can say to other people in the future-I have similarities with Ryan Upton."

Sofia teases with exaggerated tones.

The atmosphere relaxed in a few simple sentences. Sophia is undoubtedly a master of field control. She led the topic and chatted with Catherine casually, and finally got to the point: "I heard that Charlotte asked you to customize a novel. I guess you must have brought them here today."

"That's right." Catherine nodded, took out the beginning of the novel and handed it to Charlotte.

Sophia's eyes were full of curiosity, but she didn't move close to Charlotte to look.Although her tone of voice was relaxed and lively, without a hint of arrogance, her body sat upright, her skirt was so neat that there was not a single wrinkle, and there was nothing to be picky about.

When Charlotte read the manuscript, Catherine added: "This is the first draft, and some details need to be further revised. In addition—"

Catherine blinked: "Are you interested in naming it?"

"Name a novel?" Sophia raised her eyebrows. "It's very interesting. Speaking of which, Miss Kitty, have you read the letter I wrote to you? I also wanted you to write a story, but Got ahead of Charlotte."

Catherine thought about the letters she had read, and asked calmly: "I don't know what you said in the letter? For some reason, I haven't read all the letters."

"Detective novel." Sophia looked at her enthusiastically, "I think I'm the only one who asked you for such a request?"

Catherine immediately thought of the letter with the outrageous demands - grotesque yet realistic, eerie yet romantic and without gothic elements.

The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, she really didn't expect Miss Sophia to be so thoughtful, she replied tactfully: "I did see this letter, but unfortunately I am weak in writing and can't do what you requested. But I remember that I wrote you a reply , could it be that you didn't receive it?"

Sophia was stunned for a few seconds, and realized the problem belatedly: "Oh, my dear, I wrote that letter in my brother's manor, and I got the address wrong. Now he is on the front line, the letter Probably all of them were sent to his study, and no one handled them, so I didn't get your reply."

"But it doesn't matter. I guess there must be a refusal answer in that reply letter."

Sophia rolled her eyes and said.

Charlotte quickly browsed through Catherine's manuscript, and sighed slightly as she watched Catherine.

"Sure enough, I'm right. Only you can write such a story, Catherine."

"It's a pity that this story cannot be published."

Charlotte was silent for a while, and then said: "If you agree, I hope you can meet my mother. I think you must have guessed my identity a long time ago?"

The author has something to say: [Ah Jin seems to have smoked again, but it didn't show up just now, so repost it.QAQ will be updated tomorrow, I can't have only [-] words for both chapters. 】